Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Netflix Has Achieved Gender Equity in Leading Roles, USC Annenberg Inclusion Study Reveals
thewrap.comNetflix original films and series featured a girl or woman as the lead or co-lead, per the study, with films and series from 2020 and 2021 signaling notable benchmarks for year-over-year representation for women and people from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups.
Leading roles for people of color also saw an increase in representation with nearly half (47%) of the streamer’s films and series featuring a lead or co-lead from an underrepresented racial/ethnic group in 2020 and 2021.There are still strides to make, however: the study found persistent gaps in representation in Latinx, Middle Eastern/North African, Indigenous and Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander communities, as well as characters with disabilities.Behind the camera, the streaming service saw improvements for women both in terms of directorial and creator roles.
In 2021, women accounted for 26.9% of directors on Netflix films were women — a jump from the 12.7% of women who directed top-grossing films in the same year — while 38% of show creators in 2021 were women, marking a substantial jump from 2018’s figure, which accounted for 26.9% of creators being women.
Representation for women of color behind and in front of the camera also saw an increase, as directorial roles for women of color saw an uptick from 5.6% in 2018 to 11.8% in 2021, while writer and creator roles experienced comparable growth.
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